Patricia Medina Archives

5.3

Miami Exposé

A police detective (Lee J. Cobb) baits killer gamblers with a mob witness (Patricia Medina) in the Everglades.

NR

5.3

1956 Crime 73 min Play

5.8

Stranger at My Door

Notorious outlaw Clay Anderson and gang rob the town bank and flee in separate directions. Riding hard, Clay's horse goes lame and he is forced to pull-up at a nearby farm. He soon discovers that the place belongs to local preacher Hollis Jarret, his new wife, and a son from a previous marriage. Clay, posing as a weary traveler, tries to insinuate himself into a secure hideout, but the reverend isn't fooled. He agrees to allow Clay to remain at the farm for a few days, but his motive isn't ...

NR

5.8

1956 Action 85 min Play

3.9

The Beast of Hollow Mountain

An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle is being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.

NR

3.9

1956 Horror 81 min Play

7

Mr. Arkadin

Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy to take the job of exploring his new acquaintance's life story. Guy's research turns up stunning details about his employer's past, and as his work seems linked to untimely deaths, the mystery surrounding Mr. Arkadin deepens.

NR

7

1955 Crime 99 min Play

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Drums of Tahiti

A smuggler (Dennis O'Keefe) buys a bride (Patricia Medina) in San Francisco to help him run guns in 1877 Tahiti.

NR

0

1954 Adventure 73 min Play

6.2

The Black Knight

John (Alan Ladd), a blacksmith and swordsmith, is tutored at Camelot. As a commoner, he can't hope to win the hand of Lady Linet (Patricia Medina), daughter of the Earl of Yeoniland (Harry Andrews), so he creates a secret alternate identity as the Black Knight. In this new role, he is now able to help King Arthur when Saracens and Cornish men—disguised as Vikings -- plot to take over the country.

NR

6.2

1954 Action 85 min Play

6.1

Phantom of the Rue Morgue

When several women are found mutilated and murdered, the Paris police are baffled as to who the killer may be. All evidence points to Dupin, but soon it becomes apparent that it is someone (or something) stronger and deadlier than a human.

NR

6.1

1954 Crime 83 min Play

6.7

Sangaree

Lamas plays an indentured servant who rises to power in Georgia shortly after the Revolutionary War.

NR

6.7

1953 Drama 94 min Play

6.4

Plunder of the Sun

An American insurance adjuster, stranded in Havana, becomes involved with an archaeologist and a collector of antiquities in a hunt for treasure in the Mexican ruins of Zapoteca.

NR

6.4

1953 Action 81 min Play

5.5

Siren of Bagdad

Director Richard Quine's 1953 adventure comedy about a magician's efforts to rescue a dancing princess stars Patricia Medina, Paul Henreid, Hans Conried, Laurette Luez and Michael Fox.

NR

5.5

1953 Adventure 77 min Play

5.8

Captain Pirate

In 1690, years have passed since Captain Blood was pardoned by the Crown for his daring deeds against the Spanish on the Spanish Main, and he is living quietly on his plantation in the West Indies, practicing medicine and planning his marriage to Isabella. But his peaceful existence is shattered when Hilary Evans arrives and arrests him on a piracy charge. Somebody has been raiding the islands, and making it appear it was Captain Blood. In order to prove his innocence, Captain Blood has to ...

NR

5.8

1952 Adventure 85 min Play

5.4

Desperate Search

A man (Howard Keel), his wife (Jane Greer) and his famous-aviator ex-wife (Patricia Medina) search for their two children lost with a cougar.

NR

5.4

1952 Adventure 73 min Play

6

The Lady and the Bandit

Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.

NR

6

1951 Adventure 79 min Play

6.3

Fortunes of Captain Blood

When he unwittingly sends some of his men into a trap, pirate Captain Peter Blood decides to rescue them. They've been taken prisoner by the Spanish Marquis de Riconete who is now using them as slave labor harvesting pearls from the sea.

NR

6.3

1950 Action 91 min Play

5.8

Francis

The truthful soldier Stirling didn't know how to lie about his source of information, the talking army Mule, Francis, so he was treated as a lunatic and led to one after another hilarious situations, where the mule was the only one that appeared in his right mind. In the process of all this, the mule assisted in uncovering a spy, Mareen, who pretended to be lost among the jungles, but was actually...

NR

5.8

1950 Comedy 91 min Play

6.4

Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion

Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which they discover Axmann's collaboration with the nasty Sheik Hamud El Khalid. Bits include Lou's mirage sightings, one a New York newsboy ("they gave me a bad corner").

NR

6.4

1950 Comedy 80 min Play